Have we landed anything on Mars

[cybernut]

I'm not sure we did, but would like to know what others think about this before I give my reasons.

[a.flynn]

I think Viking 1 landed on Mars in the mid 1970s?  Bit before my time though, so don't know to much about it.

[ATH019]

I'm not sure we did, but would like to know what others think about this before I give my reasons.

Fact and truth may not be the same thing.  As a 'fact' there were further Viking lander missions to Mars in the 70s and 80s, so we have.  Whether this is actually true, who knows.


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[and04]

I'm not sure we can do it now never mind all those decades ago.

[cybernut]

Thanks for all the inputs so far.  I don't think we did because I don't think we had the capability to do it in the 70s and 80s.  I'll never forget a visit to the London Science Museum where one of the Viking missions was being exhibited, including a sample of Martian rock!  Frankly, it could have been a rock from the Gobi Desert.

[MsLeon]

We landed on the moon in 1969, right?  Makes sense to me that we could then land something on Mars a decade later.  I think we did.

[cybernut]

We landed on the moon in 1969, right?  Makes sense to me that we could then land something on Mars a decade later.  I think we did.

First part is debatable for many reasons.  I still don't think we landed radio controlled trucks  on Mars.

[and04]

We landed on the moon in 1969, right?  Makes sense to me that we could then land something on Mars a decade later.  I think we did.

First part is debatable for many reasons.  I still don't think we landed radio controlled trucks  on Mars.

Well said, because r/c vehicles is exactly what this is about.  Who controlled them?  Where were they located?  In a Martian orbiter?  Of course not.   

[MsLeon]

We landed on the moon in 1969, right?  Makes sense to me that we could then land something on Mars a decade later.  I think we did.

First part is debatable for many reasons.  I still don't think we landed radio controlled trucks  on Mars.

Well said, because r/c vehicles is exactly what this is about.  Who controlled them?  Where were they located?  In a Martian orbiter?  Of course not. 

Weren't they controlled in the Kennedy Space Centre or something?

[blag-it Admin]

Officially, yes or somewhere like that, but not in real time.  I think the Viking landers would have been programmed in advance of the mission or missions.



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